A recommendation that all the republics of the Americas make their citizenship more freely available to refugees may soon be considered by the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, now consulting here with officials of the United States Government. The committee was created as a result of the Third Meeting of American Ministers of Foreign Affairs at Rio de Janeiro in January, 1942, and has been in continuous session since April of that year.
Some of the American nations, notably Mexico, deny citizenship to all persons of Axis origin, whether or not they are refugees. This makes it difficult for refugees to earn a living, especially if they are professional men. In this country, and in several others, the practise is to judge each case on its merits. The naturalization of more than 100,000 persons who are technically “enemy aliens” is now in process here.
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